Intelligent Enterprise

Data Deduplication: More Than Just A Feature
The major storage manufacturers have struggled to put together viable strategies for data reduction.

Alfresco Upgrades Software For Building Online Community Sites
Enterprise 2.2 has a number of enhancements for building communities around commercial brands found in gaming, sports and entertainment.

IBM, RIM Drive Deeper Into Web 2.0
New WebSphere and Lotus Connections software for the smartphone allow users to build Web sites as well as messaging and calendaring applications.

It's Official: SEC to Propose XBRL-Based Financial Reporting
Voluntary program destined to be mandatory for all public companies within two years, speeding competitive analysis and easing regulatory oversight.

Workday Lands Software Industry's Biggest SaaS Deal
The deal, for 200,000 users, marks a tipping point in the interest and use of on-demand software among large companies.

How Bad Is The SAP Talent Shortage?
Currently, there is a deficit of 30,000 to 40,000 SAP project experts worldwide, admits Don Bulmer, SAP VP of global industry and influencers.

Head in Cloud, Vertica Taps Amazon for Online Database Service
Column-store database vendor says hosted service will appeal to toe dippers and analytic SaaS providers.

Composite Software Offers Online Tool To Help With Data Integration Projects
The Data Integration Strategy Recommendation Tool assesses 13 key variables, as well as the option to assign relative weighting to each variable, for any project requiring data integration.

Forrester Sees Convergence Trend In BI, Search
The ongoing convergence of BI and search will help "bridge the artificial system boundaries between structured data and unstructured content," the analyst firm said in a recent report.

SAP Embraces Software-Plus-Services Vision
Enterprise apps vendor envisions selling "component" services to its largest customers beginning next year.

Consider Data Value When Deciding What To Store
A report from the Society of Information Management says it is just as important to figure out what data you can throw out as it is to decide what to store.

ILog Module Speeds Deployment of Analytic Models
Rule engine vendor offers a faster way to deploy, tune and manage predictive and statistical scorecards.

SAP Plans NetWeaver Process Management and Rules Management Tools
The technologies will let business users work with developers to quickly create changes to business processes, SAP said at Sapphire 2008.

Tibco Adds Service Performance Monitoring To ActiveMatrix
Tibco's Service Performance Manager monitors services to detect any latency in response times.

HP Launches 'Extreme' Storage System
Hewlett-Packard's StorageWorks 9100 Extreme is designed for Web companies and other organizations that need multipetabytes of data storarge.

SAP's Kagermann Reveals Plan To Bring SaaS To Large Companies
SAP will announce Tuesday on-demand "components," due out next year, that integrate with a customer's existing ERP suite, Kagermann says.

SAP Software Appliances Will Run on HP, IBM Hardware
Pre-configured appliances will include SAP's ERP suite for midsize businesses, a database, and the SUSE Linux OS.

Gaylord Hotels Taps Text Mining to Boost Guest Satisfaction
How can you quickly make sense of text-based comments on thousands of customer surveys? Text analytics helped this mega-hotelier uncover hidden obstacles to customer loyalty.

Customer Satisfaction Remains Low On List Of Web Marketers, Analysts
A survey of Web analytics and marketing professionals found that only a third of respondents focused on customer satisfaction on an ongoing basis.

SAS Applies Business Intelligence To Environmental Performance
Lots of companies say they're green. Now they can prove it with this new brand of performance management software.

Truviso Offers Another Option For BI
The company's software performs continuous, real-time analysis on incoming data.

Allstate Flattens Silos In Claims Processing, Tech VP Abbattista Says
The insurance company is halfway through modernizing claims processing as a business process and linking it to its customer information management and other systems.

IBM CEO Palmisano Says New Trends Will Spur Old Company
In addition to data centers, IBM expects to capitalize on the 3 billion people joining the middle class in the next 20 years.

Google, IBM Join Forces To Dominate 'Cloud Computing'
The companies plan to exploit their common technological world view and considerable talent to build a worldwide network of servers for consumer and business use.

Adobe Pushes Broader Mobile Strategy For Flash
Several of the moves will further open access to Flash, including removing restrictions on the use of the SWF and FLV file formats.